Liu Yu hated to live in a small alley on ** Street in the north of the city.

The residence is not prosperous, with a blue brick gatehouse surrounded by a courtyard wall. Pushing open the door, there was a clump of bamboo planted in the courtyard. The bamboo knots are straight, with green branches and green leaves. There are two lotus pots inside.

Tang Yu and Feng Letai, the head catcher, entered the house, and there was a rosewood desk in the window of the room, and a small chair with rattan in front of the table. The pen, ink, paper, and inkstone on the desk are not clean. There are two large bookshelves against the wall, on which are inserted books of letters and letters, and white paper labels are attached to the purple book covers. At this time, I saw Qiu Baiyun and the other two state officials holding books and marking them. I haven't seen each other for a few days, and this already thin Xiucai looks much thinner, he has dark circles under his eyes, and he uses his slender fingers to pick open the pages of the book, and flip through them one by one. Tang Yu stood in the middle of the room and beckoned everyone: "Take a break, come and have a cup of tea." ”

Qiu Baiyun held the book in his hand and slowly paced over, his face full of tiredness: "Tang Yu, it's not boring these days, it's a book when you open your eyes, and it's a book when you close your eyes, this thing makes people upset?"

"In order to solve the case as soon as possible, everyone can only work hard. ”

Feng Letai sat at the table, changed his mind slightly, and asked, "I don't know if you have gained anything in the past two days?"

The two state officials seemed to be too tired to catch the head, dizzy, confused, and when they heard the head catcher's question, they opened their mouths one by one, and couldn't say why.

Qiu Baiyun is active by nature, and people are young after all, so although they have been tossing and turning for several days, once the key is involved, they still come to the spirit immediately. He put down the one in his hand, turned around and came to the bookshelf, took out a thin booklet from the bottom floor, and handed it to Feng Letai: "We have roughly read Liu Yuhe's collection of books and diaries, focusing on his diary, this is the reading notes made in the past few days, adults may wish to take a look, can it help the investigation of the case?"

Feng Letai took it, looked at it casually, and said, "I'll go back and read it carefully." Qiu Xiucai, can you work hard and choose the key point to tell me......"

"How dare you. Qiu Baiyun arched his hand and said: "Lord Head Catcher, the reason why we pay more attention to Liu Yu's diary is because this writing style is personal, private, remembering people's narratives, expressing his heart directly, and rarely concealing and decorating. Therefore, it may be possible to reproduce the real situation at that time to a certain extent. For example, on the 26th day of the seventh month of the eighth year of Hongwu, it was written, 'Cloudy, the climate is sultry. In the afternoon, the cool breeze came, and I went to the old bookstore of Longfu Temple with my friends, and got eight volumes of "Southern History", imitating Xu Xi's "Peony Map", counting five taels and eight coins of silver. ’”

"Oh, go on?"

"However, because the diary is too personal, what is said and recorded is too trivial and fragmentary, such as traveling, worshipping, drinking, prostitution, poetry and singing, researching ancient books, moral evaluation, inner reflection and reading experience, etc., which lack logic on the whole, so it is not easy to sort out a clear main line."

Feng Letai nodded approvingly and said, "That's true." ”

Qiu Baiyun took a few steps back, leaned against the bookshelf, and clenched his eyebrows: "Through the reading, analysis, searching, and induction over the past few days, I personally think that there are three points that seem to attract attention......"

"If you have something to say, you don't need to cower, adults won't be surprised. Tang Yu handed over the words.

"First, according to the diary, in the three years of Gengxu Hongwu, the world was initially decided, and the four seas were united. These people have been busy fighting wars for many years, and they can't take care of settling down, and in addition to all other aspects, many of them are still fighting as singles? Now that the swords and guns are in storage, and the horses are released in Nanshan, it is naturally time to make a small life for themselves. So those who are looking for a daughter-in-law are looking for a daughter-in-law, and those who are taking concubines are taking concubines, and the wind of marrying for a while permeates the capital. ”

Feng Letai hesitated for a moment and said, "Is this important?"

"Your Excellency, please listen—"

Qiu Baiyun pulled over a book and slowly flipped through it: "At that time, there was a famous family surnamed Lin in Jingshi, whose ancestral home was Guanzhong, and later made money in business and settled in Jinling. The Lin family has a daughter under her knees, twenty-nine years old, in the boudoir, not only gave birth to a pair of flowers and moon appearance, but also is very intelligent, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and has a talent that will never be forgotten, no matter what book, as long as she has read it once, she can memorize it backwards. For a while, it became famous in Beijing. Those upstarts are either greedy for beauty or appreciating talents, and they are all eager to learn. How could it be that although this woman surnamed Lin is a woman, her heart is quite high, and she can't even look down on any of the rough men who come to ask for marriage......"

"And what happened later?" Tang Yu wondered.

"Later, it was like a competition, survival of the fittest, and the recruits were cut one by one. Qiu Baiyun's face flushed, threw away the book, and said: "In the end, there are only three people left in the ring, Dugu seeks defeat, Tang Jingtian, and Liu Yu hate!"

"Senior Dugu also likes that woman surnamed Lin?"

"You can imagine the beauty of a woman who can make three men who are each leading the way at the same time. ”

"What about Long Zaitian, one of the Three Musketeers? Didn't he participate in the election?" Tang Yu suddenly remembered the big Huaixi family who was responsible for raising military salaries that Huang Zicheng, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, talked about when he introduced the case.

"Long Zaitian?" Qiu Baiyun was stunned for a moment, and then said: "He got married early, and his wife Zhu has a pungent personality, and she is the sister of Zhu Liangzu, a famous general under the emperor's account." ”

"I see. ”

Tang Yu suddenly realized, and then said, "Hey, isn't the wife of Qingyuan Hou surnamed Lin?"

"Yes, the competition is over here, there is no suspense in the ending, Lin Xian'er finally married Qingyuan Hou. The winner was Tang Jingtian. ”

Qiu Baiyun exhaled softly and uncovered the mystery: "In fact, the biggest hope at the beginning was Liu Yu's hatred, he thought that since Lin Xian'er loved poetry and books so much, he was good at calligraphy and painting, and he was also known as 'Huainan Genius', he wrote "Zhu Zi's New Interpretation" when he was young, and his reputation was far and wide, and he was the only son-in-law who rode the dragon!"

"Isn't he embarrassed this time?" Tang Yu felt a little sympathy for the arrogant, eccentric old man who would never marry.

"No way, it's the law of nature. Isn't it surprising that there are winners and there are defeats? The love between men and women is sometimes cruel. ”

Feng Letai sat there, with a straight face, and didn't speak. He gradually heard the door: "As you said, that Liu Yu later came out to denounce the 'Qingyuan Marquis' Tang Jingtian and Hu Weiyong for colluding and swearing allegiance, in fact, it can be regarded as having a origin?"

"Yes, that's my second point. ”

Qiu Baiyun smiled slyly and said: "Ten years later, that is, in the thirteenth year of Gengshen Hongwu, Hu Weiyong's case was discovered, and this case involved a wide range of people, from the princes and nobles to the ministers of the court, and all those who had been involved with this fateful prime minister were sentenced to capital punishment! In September of this year, Liu Yuhate submitted three letters, accusing the 'Qingyuan Marquis' of making friends with the Hu Death Party, with the intention of subverting the imperial court ......."

"What does the diary say about this reason?" Feng Letai tensed his sensitive nerves.

The language here is vague, vague and specious. Since the failure of the marriage proposal, Liu Yuhe has indeed been lost for a while, depressed, alcoholic, self-pitying and self-loving, he always feels that Lin Xian'er has no eyes and no talent, and thinks that she marries Tang Jingtian to covet his title. ”

"If Liu Yuh's report is just a personal revenge, it can be easily exposed. Feng Letai was surprised and said, "Then why did the three departments of the Jingshi Dali Temple, the Jinyi Guard, and the Criminal Department accept it?"

"Pledge. ”

Qiu Baiyun was calm and calm, and talked eloquently: "The cause of all misfortunes is due to the oath of allegiance with bloody handprints! After Liu Yu hated to report the Marquis of Qingyuan, the officials of the three ministries also suspected him of being selfish and communiquing personal vendettas, so they specially invited a well-known handwriting expert in the capital to conduct a strict inspection of the oath, and the results proved that the font and handprints on the list were indeed from Tang Jingtian's hand!"

Tang Yu lamented: "It seems that the evidence in Qingyuanhou's case is conclusive, ironclad, and it will never be possible to overturn the case?"

Not necessarily. ”

Feng Letai and Tang Yu suddenly became interested and asked, "How do you say this?"

That's the third and most important point I'm going to make today. ”

Qiu Baiyun sighed, full of suspicion, and said: "Judging from Liu Yuhe's last diary, in the days before he was killed, his heart was full of disgust and fear, panic, and blame at every turn! In those bits and pieces, I pieced together and found the conclusion that he was coerced by someone to do something he was unwilling to do? This person behind the scenes was obviously so powerful that he couldn't resist at all. During this period, Liu Yu hated the case of Tang Jingtian who took the lead in denouncing the 'Qingyuan Marquis' Tang Jingtian eighteen years ago, and wanted to say that he would not be able to say goodbye, and he vaguely revealed a little bit of repentance and sighing?

"And then?"

"And then there was no follow-up. ”

Qiu Baiyun searched for a while in a stack of thread-bound books behind him, took out a book, and turned to the last few pages, and in the cracks of the book, you could see jagged torn edges of the pages. said: "Obviously, these last few pages of the diary were deliberately torn up by someone!"